Optimal Texture Filtering

Trygve Randen and John Håkon Husøy
Høgskolen i Stavanger
P.O. Box 2557 Ullandhaug, N-4004 Stavanger, Norway

In Proc. Int. Conf. on Image Proc., Washington DC, Oct. 1995,

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Abstract

This paper deals with the design of a finite impulse response filter for optimal feature extraction in texture segmentation/classification. Motivated by the Fisher criterion, we develop techniques for optimal filter design. Posing some restrictions on the data, we are able to find a closed form solution to the problem, and we develop a unifying framework for this and several other approaches. We also show how the optimal filters may be designed, using less restrictive assumptions and a gradient search.